Synopses & Reviews
This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.
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"A novel of character that blends history, social change, and individual dreams in a sophisticated, seamless prose." Seattle Times
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"[An] impressive piece of fiction....[Dillard] has given herself a landscape large enough to challenge her talents." Los Angeles Times
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"[A] triumph of narrative skill and faithful research." Kirkus Reviews
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"The kind of book a reader sinks into completely....The characters are so compelling, the setting so detailed, so convincing, so absolutely complete." Boston Globe
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"Above all, a novel about the precarious, wondrous, solitary, terrifying, utterly common condition of human life." Washington Post
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"Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go." -- San Francisco Chronicle
This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.
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San Francisco ChronicleAbout the Author
Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as An American Childhood, The Living, and Mornings Like This. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Dillard attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she lives with her family.